It'll just be a dvd player, ps2, xbox 360, and maybe in the future a media pc connected to the receiver.

I'm now shopping for a receiver and powered sub. I'd like to keep the total cost of these 2 under $1000. I've found some yamaha and denon receivers but I just don't know enough to know the difference between them all. Not very many of the yamaha's have hdmi (which i have 2 hdmi ports on my tv, 1 w/ audio and 1 w/o audio). Will the hdmi cable look alot better than the component cables on my tv or should I not worry about having an hdmi capable receiver?

What I'm really looking for is suggested specific models of receivers.